Biography of Katherine Proctor

Katherine Proctor is a senior partner in Kennedys Law LLP’s London office and co-Chair of Kennedys’ International Arbitration Group.

Her practice focuses upon international arbitration and dispute resolution. She has acted for clients in both ad hoc and institutional arbitrations (including the ICC, LCIA and ARIAS) in both common and civil law jurisdictions.

She works on complex, high-value, commercially sensitive and multi-jurisdictional insurance and reinsurance, and general commercial, disputes.

Ms. Proctor is an Accredited Mediator by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution and an Executive Committee Member of the International Fine Art and Specie Insurance Conference.

A disputes lawyer is among the four professionals that Charles Russell Speechlys has promoted to the partnership. Additionally eight practitioners were promoted to legal director and 17 rose to senior associate, all in May.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has made a significant move by hiring a veteran insurance recovery litigator in Los Angeles, the latest in a series of disputes additions for the New York-headquartered firm.

A newly arrived team at Kennedys has chalked up a significant win in the long-running Brillante Virtuoso shipping insurance fraud dispute, as London’s Commercial Court rules in favour of the defendant insurers.

Kennedys has recently made significant strides to further develop its disputes capabilities in the US, UK, Middle East and Latin America. In keeping with this pace, the firm has further expanded in Chile.

In Shanghai, New York and Hong Kong, Reed Smith has hired two partners with considerable white-collar investigations and regulatory compliance experience, particularly furthering the firm’s Asian expansion.

Amid a busy year of lateral disputes hires, Osborne Clarke has announced the elevation of one disputes lawyer to its partnership, while it has also launched an India practice in Delhi via its relationship firm.